Ubuntu – How to install ANT 1.9.6

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I want to install ANT from downloaded zip: apache-ant-1.9.6-bin.zip.
How to do it ?

Best Answer

That is the Windows file you downloaded. You need the .tar.gz and that download has a file named INSTALL with a link to the installation manual:

For installation instructions see the manual in the docs subdirectory or online at http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html.

It is a binairy download so all you need to to do un-tar it to a location (I would advice something like /opt/apache-ant-1.9.6/ with a symlink to /opt/apache-ant/ so you can install several verions).

You need JDK (1.7+ adviced) and set a few things:

Add the bin directory to your path
Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to the directory where you installed Ant.
Optionally, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable

Example:

Assume Ant is installed in /opt/apache-ant/. The following sets up the environment:

export ANT_HOME=/opt/apache-ant/
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/apache-ant/jdk1.7.0_51
export PATH=${PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin

The link to the manual also has instructions on checking if all went well.

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Ubuntu – how to install ANT in ubuntu 14.04

The file apache-ant-1.9.4-bin.tar.gz is not installable package. A installable package ends with .deb.

You can install ant via the package manager.

But first you have to fix a bug in your system:

Open a terminal and run this command

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Remove the line (line 2)

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties$

and in line 35 and 36 add a # at the beginning of the line:

# This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
# developers who want to ship their latest software.

and remove all the $ from your sources.list

Then run the command:

sudo apt-get update

Then install ant:

sudo apt-get install ant

Visual Studio Code – How to Install Visual Studio Code

Update

VSCode is now available as DEB file. You can download it and then run:

sudo dpkg -i ~/path/to/code_1.XXX.deb

In case dpkg complains about missing dependencies, run:

sudo apt -f install

afterwards to fix the problem.

Old answer

Download Visual Studio Code for Linux
Extract it: unzip VSCode-linux-x64.zip -d ~/path/to/VSCode
Run the code executable to open Visual Studio Code
(Optional) Create a symbolic link to conveniently run code from the terminal:
sudo ln -s /path/to/VSCode/code /usr/local/bin/code

Source (install instructions): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux